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La Soufrière (film) La Soufrière - Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe is a 1977 documentary film in which German director Werner Herzog visits an island on which a volcano is about to erupt. The pretext of this film was provided when Herzog "heard about the impending volcanic eruption, that the island of Guadeloupe had been evacuated and that one peasant had refused to leave, [he] knew [he] wanted to go talk to him and find out what kind of relationship towards death he had" (Cronin).
La Specola The Museum of Zoology and Natural History, "La Specola" is located in Florence, next to the Pitti Palace. The name "Specola" means observatory, a reference to the astronomical observatory founded there in 1790.
La Spezia-Rimini Line The La Spezia-Rimini Line (sometimes also referred to as the Massa-Senigallia Line), in the linguistics of the Romance languages, is a line that demarcates a number of important isoglosses that distinguish Romance languages east and south of the line from Romance languages north and west of it. Romance languages on the eastern half of it include standard Italian and the Eastern Romance languages (Romanian, Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian, Istro-Romanian), while Spanish, French, Portuguese as well as Northern Italian dialects are representatives of the western group.
La Stampa La Stampa (literally “The Press”) is one of the best-known and most widely sold Italian daily newspapers, published in Turin and distributed in Italy and in other nations in Europe. It is currently owned by the Fiat Group.
La Survivance La Survivance is an expression used by French Canadians denoting the passive survival of francophone culture, typically in the face of Canadian anglophone or Anglo-American hegemony. It was used frequently in Quebec, especially before the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s, but also found expression among the culturally dispossessed francophone mill workers of northern New England, from the 19th century on.
La Swap Sixth Form The La Swap Sixth Form is the sixth-form consortium of four North London schools: La Sainte Union, William Ellis, Acland Burghley, and Parliament Hill. The name was formed from the first three letters of La Sante Union and the first letter of the other three schools.
La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo (Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man) is a 1981 film by Bernardo Bertolucci. It starred Anouk Aimée and Ugo Tognazzi, who was awarded the Best Male Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his performance.
La Tabatière, Quebec La Tabatière is a small isolated fishing village in Quebec on the Lower North Shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, near the border with Labrador. The village can be reached via a regular weekly ferry service, or La Tabatiere Airport.
La Taha La Tahá, is a municipality in the Alpujarras region of the province of Granada, Spain. The modern municipality consists of three distinct villages, though several of the villages are themselves clusters of distinct settlements.
La Tène culture The La Tène culture was an Iron Age culture named after the archaeological site of La Tène on the north side of Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, where a rich trove of artifacts was discovered by Hansli Kopp in 1857.
La Toussaint La Toussaint, or "Angeli" is the school song of All Hallows' School in Brisbane and is adapted from the traditional Catholic Prayer, "Prayer To All The Angels And Saints Before Mass", (Oratio Ad Omnes Angelos Et Sanctos Ante Missam). It is in Latin.
La Toya Jackson La Toya Yvonne Jackson (born May 29, 1956) is an American singer, a controversial musician, and the middle child of the Jackson family. Most notable for being featured on Playboy magazine and writing her memoirs on growing up in the Jackson family, she had a semi-successful career as a singer throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and returned to the music spotlight in 2004 with her Billboard dance hits "Just Wanna Dance" and "Free The World".
La Toya: Growing up in the Jackson Family La Toya: Growing up in the Jackson Family is an autobiography written by American singer La Toya Jackson, and co-authored by celebrity biography author Patricia Romanowski. The book was originally released in 1991, around the same time as Jackson's seventh studio album No Relations.
La Traversée de Paris La Traversée de Paris (The Crossing of Paris) is an album by the Michael Nyman Band featuring music composed by Michael Nyman for an audio-visual exhibition of the same name which took place at the Grande Arche de la Défense from July to December of 1989 to celebrate the bicentennial of the French Revolution.
La Tribune des Peuples The La Tribune des Peuples (People's Tribune; Polish: Trybuna LudĂłw) was a Polish-led French-language radical and romantic nationalist political weekly magazine, published in Paris between March and November 1849 - except for a hiatus caused by censorship (April 14-August 31). The founder and editor-in-chief was Adam Mickiewicz, one of the greatest Polish poets.
La Trinité-sur-Mer La Trinité-sur-Mer (An Drinded-Karnag in Breton, both literally, Trinity on Sea), is a small French village on the coast of Brittany, east of Carnac. With approximately 1500 inhabitants, the town is primarily a port, with a seaside quay dotted by numerous seafood restaurants.
La Trobe Street, Melbourne La Trobe Street (also LaTrobe) is a major street in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It runs roughly from east to west and forms the northern boundary of the CBD (known as the Hoddle Grid).
La Trobe University La Trobe University is a multicampus university in Victoria, Australia. The main campus of La Trobe is located in the Melbourne suburb of Bundoora, two other major campuses are located in the Victorian city of Bendigo and NSW-Victorian border centre of Albury-Wodonga.
La Trobe's Cottage La Trobe’s Cottage is a historic cottage in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, built in 1839 for the first superintendent of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales, Charles La Trobe, and his family. The cottage was constructed out of prefabricated materials imported from England on 50,000 square metres of land at Jolimont, near where the Melbourne Cricket Ground now stands.
La Troienne Stakes La Troienne Stakes is a Grade III race run at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky each year on Kentucky Derby Day. Run at a distance of 7 1/2 furlongs, it's open to three-year-old filly sprinters and offers a purse of $100,000.
La Ultima / Live in Berlin La Ultima / Live in Berlin is the sixth live album and the fifth concert movie of the German rock band Böhse Onkelz. The tournament movie was recorded during their last tournament "La Ultima" from August to October 2004, the concert was recorded on September 18, 2005 at the Velodrom in Berlin.
La vache qui tache La vache qui tache, ("The Cow Who Stains") is a party game for any number of players, originally started in France with a definite history that has been lost in the mists of time. The only prop required is a cork, one end of which has been blackened in a candle flame.
La venganza La venganza is a 1977 Mexican telenovela made by Televisa, produced by Valentin Pimstein and directed by Rafael Banquells, starring Helena Rojo and Enrique Lizalde. Writing credits belong to Ines Rodena (original story), Maria Teresa Madero (adaptation) and Tere Medina (adaptation).
La vida es sueño La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream) is a comedy written by Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca; it is perhaps his most well-known work. The central argument is the conflict between free will and fate.
La vie comme elle vient (Lapinot) La vie comme elle vient (unofficial English translation: Life as it comes) is a comic strip in the series The spiffy adventures of McConey (Les formidables aventures de Lapinot in the original French language), by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It was first released in 2004 as volume 8 in the series.
La villa Santo-Sospir La villa Santo-Sospir is a 35-minute amateur or home film directed by Jean Cocteau in which Cocteau takes the viewer on a tour of a friend's villa on the French coast (a major location used in Testament of Orpheus). The house itself is heavily decorated, mostly by Cocteau (and a bit by Picasso), and we are given an extensive tour of the artwork.
La virgen de los sicarios La virgen de los sicarios (international title: Our Lady of the Assassins) is a film by Barbet Schroeder about a Colombian author in his fifties who returns to his hometown of MedellĂ­n after 30 years of absence to find himself trapped in an atmosphere of violence and murder caused by drug cartel warfare. It is adapted from the novel of the same title by Fernando Vallejo.
La voix humaine La voix humaine (English: The Human Voice) is a one act opera for one character, with music by Francis Poulenc and a libretto by Jean Cocteau, based on his 1932 play. La voix humaine was first performed at the Opéra-Comique, Salle Favart, Paris, 6 February, 1959.
La Va Bon Train The La Va Bon Train ("goes like blazes" in French) was a French automobile manufactured by Larroumet and Lagarde of Agen, Lot-et-Garonne between 1904 and 1914. The company had originally been founded in 1891 as a bicycle maker.
La Valette-du-Var La Valette-du-Var is a commune in the département of Var and the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France. It is located in the metropolitan Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée, and is northeast of the city of Toulon.
La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality, Quebec [Valée-du-Richelieu (The Valley of the Richelieu) is a Regional County Municipality] in southwestern [[Quebec, Canada. It surrounds the Richelieu River as the river makes its way from Lake Champlain in the United States north to the Saint Lawrence River northeast of Montreal, Canada at Sorel, Quebec.
La Valse La Valse, une poème choréographique was written by Maurice Ravel in February 1919-1920, after Ravel's return from World War I. This piece, although commonly referred to as being a tribute to the waltz, it is in fact a scathing reflection of post-WWI Europe.
La Vang La Vang or Lavang is a locale in Quảng Trị Province, Vietnam. It is the site of the Basilica of Our Lady of La Vang, a Roman Catholic sanctuary, commemorating a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary that was seen there in 1798.
La Vérendrye Wildlife Reserve La Vérendrye wildlife reserve is one of the largest reserves in the province of Québec, Canada, covering 13,615 square kilometers of contiguous land and lake area (Assinica wildlife reserve is the largest in the province, but its territory is broken up in four non-contiguous parts). It is named after Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, a French-Canadian explorer.
La Vérité La Vérité was the last album by Niagara. Niagara was one of the few French bands who had success and critical acclaim outside of France despite not singing in English, because of this they embarked on an international tour in 1991 which included many sold out concerts.
La Vela Puerca La Vela Puerca is a uruguayan rock/ska band formed in Montevideo, Uruguay in December 1995. Its founders were Sebastián Teysera (lead vocals, frontman and main songwriter), Nicolás Lieutier (bass guitar) and Santiago Butler (guitar) - all three are still part of the band today.
La Venta, Francisco Morazán La Venta (or La Venta del Sur) is a municipality in the south of the Honduran department of Francisco Morazán. It is approximately 52 km from the national capital, Tegucigalpa, and lies just off the Pan-American Highway.
La Ventana La Ventana is a coastal resort town located South of La Paz on the Eastern side of the Baja California peninsula in the State of Baja California Sur. The location is regarded as a premier venue for kitesurfing and windsurfing due to consistent strong winds from November to April.
La Verendrye Provincial Park La Verendrye Provincial Park is a waterway provincial park located in Ontario, Canada, on the border of Minnesota. The park stretches from the border of Quetico Provincial Park to Pigeon River Provincial Park on Lake Superior, following the lower portion of the Pigeon River.
La Verna La Verna, in Latin Alverna and geographically known as Monte Penna, is an isolated mountain of 1283 m (4,210 feet) situated in the centre of the Tuscan Apennines, and rising above the valley of the Casentino. The mountain is known especially for its association with Saint Francis of Assisi—it is here that he is said to have received the stigmata—and for the Sanctuary of La Verna which grew up in his honour.
La Veuve de Saint-Pierre (2000 film) La Veuve de Saint-Pierre (English title The Widow of Saint-Pierre) is a 2000 film by Patrice Leconte with Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil and Emir Kusturica. The film made it's North American debut at the 2000 Toronto Film Festival where it won the Audience Award.
La Victoria de Acentejo La Victoria de Acentejo (Spanish meaning Victory of Acentejo in which the Spanish won in 1494) is located on the north coast of Tenerife. It is located 12 km E of Puerto de la Cruz, about 26 km SSW of the island's capital, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, NE of Los Cristianos and Las Américas of Arona and WSW of the Los Rodeos Airport.
La Vie de Bohème La Vie de Bohème is an often-adapted story first appearing in Henri Murger's magazine articles in the early 1800s. These were turned into a play, La Vie de Bohème, in 1849, and later were compiled into the book Scènes de la Vie de Bohème (Paris, 1851).
La Vie Sur Terre La Vie Sur Terre (Life on Earth) is a 1998 Malian comedy film/drama film written and directed by, and starring Abderrahmane Sissako. It is set in the village of Sokolo and depicts rural life on the eve of the 21st century.
La Vie Theatre La Vie Theatre is a small theatre company based in the Twin Cities. Formed in 2003 by Jason Schommer, Becca Jo Malmstrom, Nate Maher, and Corinne Shor the company produces often light-hearted plays, usually with a focus on comedy.
La Violencia La Violencia (literally "The Violence", in Spanish) is a term that refers to an era of civil conflict in Colombia between supporters of the Colombian Liberal Party and the Colombian Conservative Party, a conflict which took place roughly from 1948 to 1958 (exact dates vary).
La Visite National Park Parc National La Visite (La Visite National Park) is one of the two national parks of the Republic of Haiti. Located in the southeast of the country, La Visite contains the country's highest mountain, Pic de la Selle, which reaches an altitude of 2,680 meters (8,793 ft).
La Voz del Interior La Voz del Interior is a daily Spanish language newspaper edited and published in CĂłrdoba, capital of the province of CĂłrdoba, Argentina and the second-largest city in the country. It was founded on 15 March 1904 by Silvestre Rafael Remonda and Juan Dionisio Naso.
La Woz La Woz ("The Rose") is a festival held every August in Saint Lucia. The name refers to one of two sociétés, the other being La Magawit ("The Marguerite"), which holds its festival in October.
La Zarza de Pumareda La Zarza de Pumareda is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 96 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 172 people.
La Zingara La Zingara (The Gypsy Girl) is an opera semiseria in two acts (1822) by Gaetano Donizetti, set to the libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, after “La petite bohémienne” (The Little Gypsy) by Louis-Charles Caigniez, which was itself imitated from a work of August von Kotzebue.
La'aka A powerful ancestress and the most widely propitiated of spirits in east Kwaio in Malaita island. She is seen as both a protective figure who exemplifies maternal virtues and the productive powers of women and as a warrior whose deeds rivalled those of the ancient Kwaio strongmen who.
La'am La'am was an Israeli political party made up of the "Free Center" (which was a splinter group which left Herut), the State List and the Movement for Greater Israel which supported Israeli settlement in the West Bank and Gaza. Prior to the 1973 Knesset election, La'am joined with Gahal to form the Likud list and remained a faction in Likud for several years.
La'ilay Adiyabo La'ilay Adiyabo (Tigrinya "Upper Adiyabo") is one of the 36 woredas in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Mi'irabawi Zone, La'ilay Adiyabo is bordered on the south by Tahtay Koraro, on the southwest by Asigede Tsimbela, on the northwest by Tahtay Adiyabo, on the northeast by Eritrea, on the east by the Mehakelegnaw (Central) Zone, and on the southeast by Medebay Zana.
La'ilay Maychew La'ilay Maychew (Tigrinya "Upper Salty Water") is one of the 36 woredas in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Mehakelegnaw Zone, La'ilay Maychew is bordered on the south by Naeder Adet, on the west by Tahtay Maychew, on the north by Mereb Lehe, and on the east by Adwa.
La'Keshia Frett La'Keshia Frett (born June 12, 1975 in Carmel, California, USA) is a former collegiate and professional basketball player. She is currently an assistant coach for the women's basketball team at the University of Georgia.
Laager A laager, lager, leaguer or laer (Afrikaans, from Dutch leger (camp); pronounced or ), is a defensive formation of wagons or motor vehicles. The vehicles in question are drawn up into a circle or square, while a camp is made in the interior of the circle.
Laascaanood Las Anod, Lasanod, or Laascaanood is the administrative capital of regional state Sool, in Somalia and comes under Puntland regional government. The city was part of the former British Somaliland Protectorate, which gained independence from the United Kingdom on 26 June 1960.
Laṇḍā The script (Gurmukhi: ਲੰਡਾ), meaning an alphabet "without tail", is a Punjabi word used to refer to scripts in Northern India that do not use vowel signs. This is distinct from Lahnda which refers to Western Punjabi.
LaĂĽs LaĂĽs or Laus or Laos (Greek:), was an ancient city on the west coast of Lucania, at the mouth of the river of the same name, which formed the boundary between Lucania and Bruttium; the site of LaĂĽs is in the commune of Santa Maria del Cedro, Province of Cosenza, Calabria region, Italy. (Strabo vi.
Laïcité In French, some other Romance Languages, and Turkish, laïcité (pronounced ), Turkish: laiklik or laisizm, Italian: laicità or laicismo, is a prevailing conception of secularism and the absence of religious interference in government affairs, and vice-versa. While it is thought that there is no English word that captures the exact meaning of "laïcité", which comes from the Greek λαϊκός (which means "layman"), it is related to the English word "laity" or "laymen", and "laicity" is the natural English spelling or rendering of the French term.
Lab River The Lab (Albanian: Llap; Serbian Cyrillic: Лаб) is a river in the eastern part of Kosovo, south Serbia. The 72 km long right tributary to the Sitnica river, it is the main river in the Malo Kosovo depression.
Lab-on-a-chip Lab-on-a-chip (LOC) is a term for devices that integrate (multiple) laboratory functions on a single chip of only millimeters to a few square centimeters in size and that are capable of handling extremely small fluid volumes down to less than pico liters. Lab-on-a-chip devices are a subset of MEMS devices and often indicated by "Micro Total Analysis Systems" (µTAS) as well.
Labadie On a ridge 20 minutes west of the northern metropolis, the area generally called Labadie (pronouced Lah-Bah-Deeh) reveals the bluest of a calm Atlantic Ocean adjoining a curvaceous belt of lush mountains. Labadie has the distinctive charm of delivering in just one place some of the best beaches of the Caribbean, a bit of history and a bright, colorful palette of arts, crafts and people.
Labadie Collection The Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan is recognized as one of the world’s most complete collections of materials documenting the history of anarchism and other radical movements from the 19th century to the present. The Collection currently contains over 50,000 books, 8,000 serials titles (including nearly 800 current periodical subscriptions) records and tape recordings of speeches, debates, songs, and oral histories, sheet music, buttons, posters, photographs, and comics.
Laban (artist) Laban is a 1980s Eurodance duo consisting of Lecia Jönsson and Ivan Pedersen. Both members were born in Denmark and originally sung in Danish, before moving onto English language releases and going on to have international success with the releases of two albums, as well as singles such as "Love In Siberia" and "Caught By Surprise".
Laban (Book of Mormon) According to The Book of Mormon, Laban is a man in Jerusalem who commands wealth and servants, and also possesses records on brass plates of the genealogy of Lehi. After Lehi and his family leave the city Lehi sends his sons back to Jerusalem to get the records from Laban.
Laban Movement Analysis Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) is a system and language for understanding, observing, describing and notating all forms of movement. Devised by Rudolf Laban LMA draws on his theories of effort and shape to describe, interpret and document human movement.
Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino The Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (Struggle of Democratic Filipinos) is a political party in the Philippines. It was planned that the LDP would form the core of the main opposition coalition, the Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino (KNP).
Laban ng Makabayang Masang Pilipino Laban ng Makabayang Masang Pilipino (Struggle of the Patriotic Filipino Masses) was the umbrella political coalition party of the opposition during the 1998 Philippine Presidential Elections that lead to the presidency of then Vice President Joseph Estrada. It was the largest political party of that time, uniting the major parties of Senator Edgardo Angara (LDP-Aurora)'s Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (Struggle of Democratic Filipinos), tycoon Eduardo Cojuangco Jr.
Laban, the friendly ghost Laban, the friendly ghost or "the ghost who wouldn't haunt", is a children's book character created by Inger and Lasse Sandberg from Karlstad, Sweden. Laban along with his family, the Father ghost, the Mother ghost and his sister Labolina was created in 1964.
Labanotation Labannotation, or Kinetography Laban (as it is known in some parts of Europe), is a system of movement notation that is also used for dance notation. Invented by Rudolf Laban, it is one of the two main systems of movement notation used in Western culture.
Labas Labas is a word in Lithuanian that means good, useful, and/or right and is usually used in salutation. Together with a word describing the time of day, it forms a formal greeting: labas rytas is the phrase for good morning, laba diena is good day, and labas vakaras is good evening.
Labasa (Indian Communal Constituency, Fiji) Labasa Indian Communal is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 19 communal constituencies reserved for Indo-Fijians. (Of the remaining 52 seats, 27 are reserved for other ethnic communities and 25, called Open Constituencies, are elected by universal suffrage).
Labasa (Open Constituency, Fiji) Labasa Open is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, are allocated by ethnicity). Like the other open electorates, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999, 2001, and 2006.
Labasa Kisan Sangh The Kisan Sangh had been active in the Western Division of Fiji since 1937 but had not seen the need to expand its activities to other sugar cane growing districts because of transportation problems and the fact that the other districts combined had far fewer cane farmers thatn the Western Division. By 1950, the Maha Sangh, a rival to the Kisan Sangh, was well established in Labasa in the Northern Division.
Labasa Rural (Indian Communal Constituency, Fiji) Viti Levu East Maritime Indian Communal is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 19 communal constituencies reserved for Indo-Fijians. (Of the remaining 52 seats, 27 are reserved for other ethnic communities and 25, called Open Constituencies, are elected by universal suffrage).
Labatt blue line Labatt Blue Line, was a free long-distance phone service created by Labatt Brewing Company that operated between November 2002 and early spring 2003. The promotion was offered exclusively in Ontario, Canada and offered service between select cities in the province, to those 19 and older.
Labatt Park (Montreal) Labatt Park was the name of a proposed baseball stadium that was to be built to house the Montreal Expos, replacing Olympic Stadium. Proposed in 2000, it was designed by the AXOR Group of Montreal and was to be an open-air stadium with a capacity of 36,287.
Labaya Labaya (also transliterated as Labayu or Lib'ayu) was a Canaanite warlord who lived about contemporaneously with Pharaoh Akhenaten (14th century BCE). Labaya is mentioned in several of the Amarna Letters (abbreviated "EA", for 'el Amarna'), which is practically all we know about him.
Labbay Labbay, Labbai, Labba (Tamil : லப்பய் , Urdu : ﻟﺐ ﺑﮯ) is a Muslim community from Southern India. A Trading Community spread through the southern states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
Labdanum Labdanum is a sticky brown resin obtained from the shrubs Cistus ladanifer (western Mediterranean) and Cistus creticus (eastern Mediterranean), species of rockrose. It has a long history of use in herbal medicine and as a perfume ingredient.
Label A label is any kind of tag attached with adhesive to something so as to identify the object or its contents. Labels come in many forms and can be differentiated by the type of base material, called stock, that they are printed on, and by the adhesive type that they use.
Label (sociology) In sociology, the word labeling is used more as a metaphor, than a concrete concept. The general function of labels are widely known and recognized as a method of distinction that helps people recognize one product from another.
Label Distribution Protocol Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) is a protocol in which two label-switched routers (LSR) exchange label mapping information. The two LSRs are called LDP peers and the exchange of information is bi-directional.
Label maker A label maker is a device designed to produce small, self adhesive labels for affixing to objects. Traditionally, label makers worked by impacting a length of tape with a hammer in the shape of the letter to be typed, causing a letter shaped extrusion on the opposite side of the tape.
Label printer A label printer is a computer peripheral that prints on self-adhesive label material and sometimes card-stock. Label printers are different from ordinary printers because they need to have special feed mechanisms to handle rolled stock, or tear sheet (fanfold) stock.
Label Scar Label scars are the remnants of signage left behind on a surface when the original sign is removed. Though common on many surfaces, label scars are most often found on the masonry of malls and shopping centers, especially in areas where tenants have vacated their storefronts.
Label Switch Router A Label Switch Router (LSR) (sometimes called transit router), is a type of a router located in the middle of a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. It is responsible for switching the labels used to route packets.
Label Switched Path In MPLS networking, a Label Switched Path (LSP) is a path through an MPLS network, set up by a signaling protocol such as LDP, RSVP-TE, or CR-LDP. The path is set up based on criteria in the forwarding equivalence class (FEC).
Labelas Enoreth Labelas Enoreth // is an elven deity in many Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings. In the Forgotten Realms, he is Lord of the Continuum who governs the orderly passage of time and guards against those who would alter the path of history.
LabelFlash Labelflash™ is a technology which allows users to burn custom motifs or images onto DVD media, introduced by NEC in December 2005. This is similar to the LightScribe technology invented by Hewlett-Packard earlier.
Labeling (map design) Labeling (for cartographic purposes) is a form of typography and strongly deals with form, style, weight and size of type on a map. Essentially, labeling denotes the correct way to label features (points, arcs, or polygons).
Labeling theory Labeling Theory (or Labelling Theory) is concerned with how the self-identity and behavior of an individual is influenced (or created) by how that individual is categorized and described by others in their society. Originating in sociology and criminology, the theory focuses on the linguistic tendency of majorities to negatively label minorities or those seen as deviant from norms, and is associated with the concept of a self-fulfilling prophecy and stereotyping.
Labelle Labelle (with the b written in small caps, while the spelling LaBelle exclusivelly refers to the stage surname of the group's lead vocalist, Patti LaBelle) was an American R&B/soul group, who successfully melded dance music with funk and glam rock, resulting in such memorable songs as "Lady Marmalade". The group was led by Patti LaBelle, who later had a successful solo career.
Labelled enumeration theorem The labelled enumeration theorem is the counterpart of the PĂłlya enumeration theorem for the labelled case, where we have a set of labelled objects given by an exponential generating function (EGF) g(z) which are being distributed into n slots and a permutation group G which permutes the slots, thus creating equivalence classes of configurations. There is a special re-labelling operation that re-labels the objects in the slots, assigning labels from 1 to k, where k is the total number of nodes, i.
Labia (family) The Labia family were noble family of Venice, originally merchants of Spanish origin, they bought their titles from the Venetian Republic in 1646. At the beginning of the 18th century the family built the Palazzo Labia on the Cannaregio Canal in Venice, at this time they were one of the wealthiest families in Europe.
Labial consonant Labials are consonants articulated either with both lips (bilabial articulation) or with the lower lip and the upper teeth (labiodental articulation). English is a bilabial nasal sonorant, and are bilabial stops (plosives), and are labiodental fricatives.
Labial-palatal approximant The labial-palatal approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is H.
Labial-velar consonant Labial-velar consonants are doubly articulated at the velum and the lips. They are sometimes called "labiovelar consonants", a term which can also refer to labialized velars, such as the approximant .

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